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Caroline Weber

Associate Professor of French

Caroline Weber, Associate Professor of French, joined the faculty of Barnard in 2005. In addition to her teaching duties for the French department, Professor Weber is affiliated with Barnard's Comparative Literature Program. Before coming to Barnard, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Weber is a specialist in eighteenth-century French literature and culture, with particular emphasis on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Additional research and teaching interests include critical theory, gender studies, and costume history.

Her essays have appeared in a wide variety of academic and mainstream publications. She has published articles on eighteenth-century authors such as Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Sade, Charrière, and La Chaussée, and on contemporary thinkers like Lacan and Lyotard. She writes regularly for The New York Times Book Review.

Professor Weber's book, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, was selected by both TheNew York Times and The Washington Post as a Notable Book of the Year.

She is working on a book about ideology in bourgeois drama.

Selected Bibliography

Books and Edited Volumes:

Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Fragments of Revolution. A special issue of Yale French Studies 101. Co-edited with Howard Lay (Spring 2002).

Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. New York: Henry Holt, 2006/Picador, 2007.